It's Not an Easter Basket Without...

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

Reese's pieces in a carrot shaped bag

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Did anyone else get cheese curls in a pastry bag with a little green straw to look like a carrot in their basket? Whoever came up with the idea was genius - less sugar to cause bounce off the walls! When I was a Sunday School Teacher, I always refused to do Easter Sunday!

For years, I would get just black jelly beans, which my daddy told me was something "personal" from the Easter Bunny! And, my favorite Golden Book was about the Easter Bunny!

[KSUViolet06]

I hate peeps. Ew. I don't know why my parents continued to put them in my basket knowing that I gave them to my brother every year. lol.

[cheerfulgreek]

I like these. Yummy.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I like these. Yummy.

I'm sticking with my original post. My parents always made me an Easter basket every year since I can remember, and to this very day my mom still makes one for me every year and sends it to me in the mail. Inside, as it always has been are my "Dubble Bubble" bubble gum eggs. Yummy.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Wow, none of you ever had See's Easter baskets?

[victoriana]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Wow, none of you ever had See's Easter baskets?

I think See's is a west coast/California thing only. I looooove See's though. Bordeaux = heaven!

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Wow, none of you ever had See's Easter baskets?

I've only had See's once, and that was when a friend from Cali sent me some. It was yummy.

[VandalSquirrel]

Solid good quality chocolate bunnies with ears that are bite worthy. See's chocolate covered candy eggs with frosting decoration. Milka chocolate eggs are also a favorite. Coconut nests with jelly beans, nom nom. I also liked the sugar eggs that had icing decoration and some kind of edible diorama inside. http://www.sugareggs.com/

As a kid it was always about the egg hunt and I liked all kinds of candy, even peeps and black jelly beans. Robin's eggs, and Cadbury mini eggs, YUM.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Wow, none of you ever had See's Easter baskets?

Originally Posted by victoriana

I think See's is a west coast/California thing only. I looooove See's though. Bordeaux = heaven!

I didn't have a straight up basket from See's, but items from See's are a part of every holiday. We used to enjoy Joseph Schmidt until they were bought out by Hershey's and then closed. My grandmother always got me Irish Potatoes from See's for St. Patrick's Day, and I should totally send some to Irish Lake next year.

Easter is really bitter sweet for me as my father died on Good Friday and my grandfather's funeral was on Good Friday last year. My nephew was adorable and left a note at home for the Easter Bunny and called his dad from the hotel with our room number so the Easter Bunny could find him. We got a suite and I got to hide candy and plastic eggs for him which was a real treat when he woke up and was so excited the Easter Bunny came.

Since I'm allergic to food dye and pork this Easter is going to be about chocolate and lamb, but I may have something small with dye in it and try some organic pork from the co-op. I loved coloring eggs growing up and searching for hidden real and plastic ones. The Easter Bunny came to my house but he also came to church and we got to search there. My childhood church is no longer a place of worship, but you can see how massive it is on this youtube video. http://youtu.be/ODC2HlpsnPk I liked writing on eggs in white crayon to decorate them and always used all of the stickers and paper stand accessories for my eggs. It was serious business because those eggs ended up in egg cups or used for deviled eggs.

[adpi*violet]

I'm in the hate peeps love cadburry creme eggs crowd.

In our Easter baskets growing up we always had those malted eggs and at least one chocolate bunny. For my son, I've been doing jelly beans and a small little gift of toy or dvd. Plus, he gets whatever else from all the community egg hunts we go to!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by adpi*violet

In our Easter baskets growing up we always had those malted eggs and at least one chocolate bunny. For my son, I've been doing jelly beans and a small little gift of toy or dvd. Plus, he gets whatever else from all the community egg hunts we go to!

Are malted eggs like Whoppers, but in the shape of an egg?

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

My grandmother always got me Irish Potatoes from See's for St. Patrick's Day, and I should totally send some to Irish Lake next year.

iLike!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by AGDee

They are Robin's Eggs and they are like whoppers but egg shaped and with a very light candy coating (colored, like eggs).. like an m&m coating.They are made by Whoppers.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Yes, and covered in a candy shell.

I don't think I'd like the candy coated shell. I mean, not over the malted part. Plus, I don't like Whoppers because they're too hard. I like the taste, I just wish they weren't so hard. The candy coated shell would be too much.

[psusue]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

Easter is really bitter sweet for me as my father died on Good Friday and my grandfather's funeral was on Good Friday last year.

VandalSquirrel I'm thinking of you! Turn your PMs back on if you ever want to talk.

[Tulip86]

Meringue cookies in cute colors, supersweet but I just love those

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I just like solid milk chocolate. Peanuts, peanut butter, nougat and caramel are the only other kind of filling I like inside.

And I couldn't care less about the chocolate. That's why I like the robin's eggs over the regular malted milk balls -- I don't notice the chocolate as much.

I don't fall squarely on Team Hates Chocolate (unless it's chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream -- really don't like either) but I am firmly on Team Usually Chooses Something Other Than Chocolate. (Sorry DrPhil.)

Ah well, that's why we all have our own Easter baskets.

And Tulip86 -- meringue cookies for the win.